Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Bonds

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Ballad of the brown king [cantata]
• Of the three wise men (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Credo [cantata]
• no. 1. I believe in God (Text: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois) [x]
• Don’t you want to be free? [musical]
• Don’t you want to be free? (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Six Songs on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• no. 1. Women have loved before as I love now (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 2. Hyacinth (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 3. Even in the Moment (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 4. Feast (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 5. I Know My Mind (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 6. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
• Songs of the Seasons
• no. . Young Love in Spring (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. . Poème d'automone (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. . Summer storm (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 2. Winter moon (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Three dream portraits
• no. 1. Minstrel man (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• no. 2. Dream variation (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 3. I, too (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• Three Early Songs
• no. 1. Sleep Song (Text: Joyce Kilmer)
• no. 2. A Sea Ghost (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman)
• no. 3. Sunset (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Tropics After Dark
• no. 1. Chocolate Carmencita (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 2. Cowboy from South Parkway (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 3. I’ll Make You Savvy Somehow (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 4. Lonely Little Maiden by the Sea (Text: Langston Hughes; Aurnaud Wendell Bontemps) *
• no. 5. Market day in Martinique (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 6. Pretty little flower of the tropics (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 7. Sweet nothings in Spanish (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 8. Voo doo man (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• no. 9. The way we dance in Chicago/Harlem (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• no. 10. When the Sun Goes Down in Rhumba Land (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• April rain song (Text: Langston Hughes)
• A Sea Ghost (in Three Early Songs) (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman)
• Be a Little Savage with Me (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Beyond the end of the trail (Text: Roger Chaney) [x]
• Birth (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Children’s sleep (Text: Vernon Glasser) [x]
• Chocolate Carmencita (in Tropics After Dark) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Cowboy from South Parkway (in Tropics After Dark) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Diary of a divorcee (Text: Janice Lovoos) [x]
• Don’t speak (Text: Janice Lovoos) [x]
• Don’t you want to be free? (in Don’t you want to be free?) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Down and Out (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Dream variation (in Three dream portraits) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Dry bones (Text: Volkslieder )
• Even in the Moment (in Six Songs on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Feast (in Six Songs on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• He's got the whole world in His hand (Text: Volkslieder )
• Hyacinth (in Six Songs on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• I believe in God (in Credo) (Text: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois) [x]
• I Know My Mind (in Six Songs on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• I’ll Make You Savvy Somehow (in Tropics After Dark) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• I, too (in Three dream portraits) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• Lonely Little Maiden by the Sea (in Tropics After Dark) (Text: Langston Hughes; Aurnaud Wendell Bontemps) *
• Lord, I just can't keep from cryin' (Text: Volkslieder )
• Market day in Martinique (in Tropics After Dark) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Minstrel man (in Three dream portraits) (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• No Man Has Seen His Face (Text: Janice Lovoos)
• Of the three wise men (in Ballad of the brown king) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Poème d'automone (in Songs of the Seasons) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Pretty little flower of the tropics (in Tropics After Dark) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Sleep Song (in Three Early Songs) (Text: Joyce Kilmer)
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Text: Robert Frost) GER
• Summer storm (in Songs of the Seasons) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Sunset (in Three Early Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Sweet nothings in Spanish (in Tropics After Dark) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• The moon winked twice (Text: Margaret Allison Bonds; Dorothy Sachs; Dan Burkley) [x]*
• The Negro speaks of rivers (Text: Langston Hughes) GER
• The New York blues (Text: Malone Dickerson) [x]
• The pasture (Text: Robert Frost)
• The price of a love affair (Text: Ernest Richman) [x]
• The way we dance in Chicago/Harlem (in Tropics After Dark) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• To a brown girl dead (Text: Countee Cullen) GER
• Voo doo man (in Tropics After Dark) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (in Six Songs on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
• When the dove enters in (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• When the Sun Goes Down in Rhumba Land (in Tropics After Dark) (Text: Langston Hughes) [x]*
• Winter moon (in Songs of the Seasons) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• Women have loved before as I love now (in Six Songs on poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Young Love in Spring (in Songs of the Seasons) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
• You’re pretty special (Text: Dorothy Sachs) [x]

Last update: 2025-10-07 06:21:24